holiday rundown

I had the best holiday season ever. I don't know what it was about this year but I was feeling oh so Christmas-y. The boys are getting older and really understanding the whole Christmas excitement which of course added to my excitement. I made an advent calendar this year which we filled full of fun stuff to do. We were surrounded by wonderful family and friends. It was great.

We started off with a couple injuries, nothing too serious, just enough to keep my adrenaline pumping. Gavin ran at full speed into a wrought iron bar at Costa Vida one night. The kid completely close-lined himself and went down hard. I saw the whole thing from a distance and could do nothing to stop it. They have iron bars for the food line, where people stand to order and the horizontal cross bar is exactly one inch above Gavin's eye line view. BAM! unicorn horn. This doesn't do it any justice, I took this the next day. He had a gross black and blue for a while.

Onto to the next: Everett sliced his head open right through his eyebrow, of course forgot to take a good pic of the actual stitching procedure, which was kinda cool. But he sported a band aid for a couple weeks. don't mind the chocolate coma induced stare...and drool.

One of the boys favorite advent calendar activities this year was riding the train at the mall in Provo. Some of the other favorites: Temple square lights, donating mittens to the library tree, sledding, making sugar cookies, and watching Christmas movies.
Santa made a special visit to the Grandma and Grandpa Nash house this year just before Christmas. Here are the cousins loving it.

We spent Christmas with the Lund folk this year. We slept over at my parents house we ate delicious food, played games, opened a ton of presents and had a perfect Christmas. Gavin has never gone to bed so quickly in his life. He knew Santa would not come unless he was asleep. So man did he go to bed fast! I am wondering if I can still use the Santa threats on into January...





Christmas Eve in Alpine at what we call the "Santa House". There is a huge house all lit up like temple square in the cove and Santa always visits for a while and we drove up to see him. These are the cousins sitting in the sleigh. Gavin thought it was pretty much the coolest.



Some of my cute friends from high school had an ugly sweater party after Christmas. It was a blast and it was so fun to catch up with these girls and their hubbies. Here we are looking fantastic :) We couldn't find Rob a sweater so he wore one of my dad's..which was a few sizes large.

Then last but not least we celebrated New Years with our own little partay, we made yummy food and games and music and Gav made us all party hats and we cracked open that bubbly at about 7:00 PM! Yeah you read that right, I know, we are animals right! :) The kids went to bed and Rob and I relaxed and watched movies.I know we look a little rough but we just got back from sledding O.K?!!



Merry New YeaR!
Normal...no??

Gavin's Fourth!

It is official Gavin is now a big boy...that's what he says anyway. Gavin celebrated the big #4 on the 8th this month. I was all set for a pirate cake but Gav caught the Christmas fever and changed his mind to a Santa and Frosty cake!



Here is a pic of all the fam who came to celebrate minus a few that weren't there yet, and me behind the lens of course! Happy Birthday Gav! Oh and apparently my Dad is from the "hood" YO!... love it! :)

oh...sheet!

So this little dude is a bundle of mischief, he gets into EVERYTHING! He draws on couches, dumps all contents of all drawers on the floor all the time, basically tries to destroy our home on a daily basis. He teases his older brother mercilessly... AND he has picked up some bad language along the way... and a latino accent as well...hmmm, weird. Kinda makes me wonder who he's been hanging out with! pirates?




He can often be heard yelling out profanities like SHEET SHEET! This is the kind of sheet we have in our house.

seat :)



Not to be confused with BOO SHEET! (maybe his name should have been Juan instead of Everett)

booster seat:)



And last but not least....he is wearing his boobs...
boots :)


One would be surprised how often these few words come up in daily conversation with a 1 year old. So what else can we do but punish him with hard labor.

He is a handful but it does make me chuckle when he exclaims SHEET SHEET as he runs to climb up on a chair. :)

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Good Mood Gig from SAM-e

Halloween 2010

The Pirate Crew!

Captain Hook!

Braving the storm!

A water logged little Smee!

WE LOVE HALLOWEEN!!

Merry Halloween!

Bahama Mama!

This is me the Bahama Mama :) Soaking in the sunset on the top deck of our cruise ship!...that's right folks, Rob and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas...ALONE...NO KIDS! I have never left he boys before so this was HUGE... I was so very paranoid before we left writing wills and farewell letters etc...I know that's weird... but I thought what if we went down in a fiery ball of burning plane! I was very nervous to say the least, I sobbed all the way to the airport! But our wonderful family took excellent care of the boys...they may have had more fun than we did! We flew to Miami, then boarded the ship and went to Key West, Nassau- Bahamas, and Coco Cay. It was way too much fun, but it did make me realize and appreciate my beautiful boys, they drive me crazy sometimes but I could never live without them!

Key West indulging in THE BEST key Lime pie EVER! In fact indulging would be a great word to describe most of that vacation! Ate way too much delicious food, slept in stayed up late...or went to bed early, I got to eat meals undisturbed without cooking the meals, without wiping grubby hands without cleaning up spills and crumbs!!! That alone was great!

Snorkeling on Coco Cay.

Had to put this one in because it still makes me laugh...

Have you booked your cruise yet :)